Quotes About Reputation

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.

The people believe that those who do not think as they do are fools. For that reason, they take me for such, and I am grateful, because woe is me! The day the would wish to give me back my sanity, that day they'll deprive me of the little liberty that I have bought at the cost of my reputation as a rational being. And who knows if they are right? I neither think nor live according to their laws; my principles, my ideals are different.

Ni a mí, que el orbe es testigo de que hipócrita no soy, pues por doequiera que voy va el escándalo conmigo.

But further, a man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and Observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

For how few ambitious men are there, who have got as much fame as they desired, and whose thirst after it has not been as eager in the very height of their reputation, as it was before they became known and eminent among men?

And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him; but on the contrary, if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him, though they might raise the reputation of another, they are a diminution to his.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

afraid of Slander Sheet. A lie this outrageous, you take it seriously.

There were rumors and jokes and casual remarks made about him, and the bishop and his staff were content to allow Joshua's reputation to be determined by these remarks. It showed the poverty of their concern for the real life of the community and the little value they placed on reputations.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

They have no achievements of their own. They've made nothing, created nothing, worked at nothing. They will leave no trace that they ever existed. They have no legacy except for their names, which they did nothing to earn.

But what really counts isn't what people say to your face. It's what they say behind your back.

Signs of the Times. It is more important to be seen than to exist.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

A signature always reveals a man's character -and sometimes even his name.

I feel like not all press is good press. Sometimes personal things can be released, and... that's not good press.

The main reason I got released from Shrewsbury in the first place was for what I was doing off the pitch.